The article is devoted to the analysis of the historical parable Lunin, or the Death of Jacques, Recorded in the Presence of the Master by Edvard Radzinsky. Proceeding from the genre paradigm of the parable, Radzinsky ...

Since his debut in 2004, Zakhar Prilepin has constantly been present on the Russian cultural scene. A literary scholar, journalist, writer, politician and even a military man, he is the author of a set of highly popular ...

The article analyzes salient aspects of Guzel Yakhina’s novel Zuleikha (Zuleikha opens her eyes) and its critical reception. First of all, the author discusses the connections of the artistic world of the novel with the ...

The purpose of this article is to investigate the diary genre as used in Evgeny Vodolazkin’s novel The Aviator. The author of the paper attempts to describe and emphasize the innovativeness of Vodolazkin’s approach, as ...

The article investigates references to Shakespeare in the works of Viktor Shklovsky, an outstanding representative of the Russian formalism. The author of the paper analyses literary studies by Shklovsky in which Shakespeare’s ...

The paper is concerned with the documentary novel by Svetlana Alexievich which describes one of the biggest technological humanitarian disasters of the 20th century: the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ...

The article discusses the work of one of the most outstanding and original representatives of the “New Drama”, the playwright Yuri Klavdiev (born in 1974). At the most recent stage of his creative work, the author shows ...

The paper takes up the problem of the genre of Maxim Gorky’s novel/novella The Life of Matvei Kozhemyakin (1911). The author of the article finds the discussed work synthetic in terms of genre, indicating features of various ...

Rock poetry has been attracting scholarly attention in Russia since the late 20th century. As a phenomenon of world culture, it dates back to the 1960s; in the Russian cultural sphere, however, its beginnings are usually ...

Galina Kuznetsova was a Russian writer, poet and memorialist who belonged to the younger generation of the Russian Emigration (the first wave). Her most famous work is the so-called “Grasse Diary”. Kuznetsova’s place in ...